Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1895 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

And now St.•• Louis wants the. Democratic national convention. St. John's, N. F.. dispatch: The coast steamer Yirgiiiia Lake reports immense destruction all along the coast. The schooners Victory, with twenty-two men, jam! Goldfinch, with fourteen men, have been lost. Several other vessels are missing. A boat named Peri Pampai was picked up on the Grand Batiks. It is believed to have belonged to a foundered French vessel. Delegate Tomas Estrada Palma. Minister Plenipotentiary to this Country of Cuban revolutionary Assembly, left New York for Washington. He will probably open the Cuban Legation in Washington; ..for which a house has been rented. He will eonfer-with Congressmen and Senators before presenting his credentials to President Cleveland. Secretary Gonzalo de Quesada, of the Cuban revolutionary party, will be secretary of the Cuban Legation. Sentiment in this country seems to.be very generally in favor of President Cleveland’s position upon the Monroe doctrine. The message was warmly received . by Congress. and .many Governors have commended it. In London the message created a profound sensation. Neither the press nor public seemed able, to appreciate its full scopp. It was. characterized as “a remarkable document,” and the Times said it “was read in London with blank astonishment.”